I would recommend uploading the material in whatever file(s) you have. Then solicit volunteers to each take a part of the source material and convert it to wiki markup. The key at this point is to have structure on the wiki make sense and easy to navigate. Once the German source material is on the wiki, use machine translation to convert the paragraphs from German to English. Once in English, volunteers will still need to polish, but it will be a lot easier for them. The machine translation may still leave some paragraphs unintelligible, so someone with a good grasp of both German and English would need to look over the material.
Just a thought. Sincerely, Seth On Jul 2, 1:58 am, Günther Osswald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi friends, > > the University of Munich (LMU), department for the didactics of > physics, plans to get their materials for primary education on-line on > WE. According to their own estimations, the size is about 1000 pages. > The project is called SUPRA, and contains lesson plans and handouts > (immediately usable material for print or download) as well as > didactic background information and the results of research surveys. > Prof. Wiesner, the head of the department, calls it “unique in the > world”. > > http://www.edu.uni-muenchen.de/supra/ > > My personal opinion is, to get this content on WE could be of help to > millions of schools, as even in German teacher education, primary > physics is often weak. > > The “only” problem for them is the translation into English and the > conversion to wiki syntax. > The department itself does not have any resources available for this > purpose, cost are estimated to about 25.000 Euro. > > I guess this case is not the only one of this type. Good teaching > materials, ready for use, the authors willing to release it under CC- > license, but need for translation and conversion, and no funds :-( . > BTW: I myself do not yet know how I should get my Mechanics11 > translated properly :-( :-( . > > Any proposals? > > Greetings from hot&sunny Bavaria > > Günther > > http://www.wikieducator.org/User:White_Eagle --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WikiEducator" group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
